Chapter 12 Red Wanderer (2/2)
“But, I’ve heard that on Mars, the surface is all red soil and sand because it is so dry Isn’t that exactly what’s in front of us?” a fe tone
As early as the last century, in the 1960’s, humanity had already sent out space probes to explore Mars In 1997, the Pathfinder capsule successfully touched down onto the surface of Mars
After its approxie anorant about Mars
“Mars’ soil contains a great deal of oxidized iron Due to long exposure to UV, the whole planet appears to be rusted It’s coht in front of us Don’t tell me… we really have left Earth and are now on a different planet?” Ahis fists, to the point where his joints were already turning blue
“If we really were on Mars, ouldn’t be able to survive There’s not enough oxygen and the teh her complexion was pale, once she said this, quite a few people felt a trace of hope rise within the Bo, and some of the others had always remained calm They knew that they had already left Earth, so orse could happen? No matter what happened now or later, it couldn’t be worse
Everyone stopped in front of this huge boulder for quite a long tiht source It didn’t appear far, but even after walking five hundredanother five hundred meters
Everyone was very nervous, so it was very rare for anyone to say anything The mood was very oppressed Apparently, they were afraid that the last bit of hope in front of the Bo randomly kicked a rock beneath his feet It flew into the air with a shower of dust, and at this moment, he became shocked; that rock he kicked out was actually a tile
“It’s a tile!” When he picked up that broken-in-half tile, he immediately confirmed this was an artificially created tile
A crowd of people i the broken tile Quite a few people became excited
“Since there’s a tile, there s on this vast land, not just a five-colored altar”
“We’ll be saved!”
“We’ll definitely be able to escape!”
The pessimistic mood lessened and a joyous mood replaced it Everyone had found hope for their survival
At this moment, the sky had already darkened, and a vast multitude of stars had appeared
Ye Fan looked up at the starry sky, and discovered a vague disk suspended on the horizon This disk was only half the size of the Earth’sthis place was definitely not Earth Furtherht star, hter than other stars, but still a bit diht to be called a star, but too dark to be called aZiwen, and Liu Yunzhi were all standing not far fro Ye Fan’s actions, they also couldn’t help but look up at the sky When they saw the two graceful ed color
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[i] Bell-cauldron script, a kind of Chinese character used in, while huowith the nickname for Mars, the red planet, in order to come up with Red Wanderer
Translator notes: The nahter than other stars in the night sky, but itsobt was different, and it seeh the sky randomly (as they didn’t knoas a planet, so itsobt confused theinates from the Greek word for 'wanderer' This is because planets see more fixed in the sky like stars So that’s how I just made up 'Red Wanderer'
Mars has two moons on it, Phobos and Deimos From Mars, Phobos is 1/3 the size of Earth’s htest, it is about as bright as Venus from Earth